A 4-days Q3ADE Starter Course

UHC provides courses in the use of Q3ADE® tools on periodic basis and on-site for specific customer purposes.

This is a description of the standard Q3ADE Starter Course, which is offered 2-3 times every year.

The standard arrangement covers 4 full days and includes lunches, beverages and lecture notes.

(Consult the UHC News Page for the date of the next arrangement.)

Contents:

Resume
Benefits of attending the course (and who should attend)
Preconditions
The Agenda

Resume

Q3ADE(tm) is a TMN toolbox, that contains all the necessary components for developing genuine TMN Applications, whether agents, mediation functions or managers. At the Q3ADE Course, you will get a chance to actually develop a small TMN application. You will get a chance to make some GDMO and ASN.1 spec's. You will get a feeling for the imense flexibility and power of true TMN.

The Q3ADE-course addresses primarily TMN implementers, but may also be attended by project managers with an urge to get a hands-on feeling for TMN. You will receive a fully functional Q3ADE CD and a 3 months demonstration license at the seminar. The Q3ADE CD contains all the material from the Course in electronic form.

Benefits of attending the Course

The object of this course is to give the participant:

1. an overview of the concepts and features of Q3ADE,
2. a hands-on feeling of TMN and OSI Management technologies,
3. an understanding of the project structure and project management tools of Q3ADE,
4. an understanding of the techniques of implementing Q3 Agents and Q3 Mediation applications,
5. an understanding of the techniques of implementing basic Q3 Management applications.
   

The typical participant is a TMN project manager or developer, which needs to get an overview of Q3ADE in a start-up phase.

Preconditions

The participant should have basic knowledge about TMN equivalent to the level of the TMN Course.

The participant should have a basic familiarity with C++. A basic knowledge about computer networking and software development is an advantage.

You should bring your own PC with Visual C++ installed. A limited number of PC's may be provided by UHC on a first-come-first-served basis, in which case, you may have to share it with another attendant.

The Agenda:

The Agenda for the Q3ADE-Course is:

Day 1: General Introduction to Q3ADE

• The Q3ADE Architecture
• The Q3ADE Project model
• Tutorial: Creating an Agent project
• Q3ADE GDMO and ASN.1 compilation
• Tutorial: Writing and compiling a GDMO and ASN.1

Day 2: Developing Agents and configuring Q3ADE

• The Q3ADE CMIP Agent Engine Algorithms
• The Q3ADE Fragment concept
• Tutorial: Adding behavior to the agent
• Q3ADE Configuration and Q3IM
• Tutorial: Configuring a manager/agent network

Day 3: Advanced Q3ADE Issues

• Multithreading support
• Interfacing to Real Resources
• Tutorial: Creating a real resource interface
• Object Persistency Support
• Tracing and Debugging features
  (We finish at 1600 hours)